The Promise and Peril of Things
Li, Wai-yee![The Promise and Peril of Things](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/376/37696564/CHSBZCOP0337696564.jpg)
Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions-people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found-to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.